WSL is Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The installation of WSL can be found https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/windows/wsl/install-win10 .
WSL can be upgraded to WSL2 for a better file I/O performance. The upgrdation instruction can be found https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-install.
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Note: make sure that the vitrualization support in BIOS is on when upgrading WSL to WSL2.